Ron Paul doing better than I thought...

[xcalybur]

I took the AOL poll numbers when it first hit these boards as a pretty accurate poll of how the people of AOL know the candidates and how they feel about them. Honestly, we (the Ron Paul loyalists) are in a bubble of some kind. We will eventually burst from that bubble when Ron Paul gets noticed, but right now we are a minority of the American people. Anyways, I ran some calculations that took into account all the stats, especially how well people knew the candidates and ranked them. The ranking represents the current potential of the candidate in the future assuming nothing changes. Here are the Rankings.

1 Giuliani Rep
2 Obama Dem
3 Clinton Dem
4 McCain Rep
5 Edwards Dem
6 Romney Rep
7 Richardson Dem
8 Paul Rep
9 Tancredo Rep
10 Thompson Rep
11 Hunter Rep
12 Huckabee Rep
13 Kucinich Dem
14 Biden Dem
15 Gilmore Rep
16 Brownback Rep
17 Gravel Dem
18 Dodd Dem

I've got Ron Paul 8th among all candidates right now. The only 2nd tier candidate above him is Richardson and according to my calculations he is only about 1.2% above Ron Paul. Now this is not an opinion piece, this is just a statistical analysis of the AOL poll which I thought was a fairly accurate snapshot of the state of the candidates with the American people.

Thanks.